Richard Drögereit

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Richard Robert Ferdinand Drögereit (born January 25, 1908 in Essen , † October 2, 1977 in Bad Bergzabern ) was a German historian and archivist .

His parents were the office manager Richard Drögereit and Luise, geb. Barthold. In 1936 he married Hertha Eller.

Drögereit attended the Krupp-Oberrealschule in Essen and studied in Göttingen , Münster and Exeter in addition to his main subjects history, English and German from 1927, also historical auxiliary sciences with Alfred Hessel and Karl Brandi , from whom he received his doctorate in 1932 in Göttingen with a thesis on the Anglo-Saxon royal chancellery.

After preparatory service, he became archivist at the Hanover State Archives in 1934 , interrupted by the Yugoslav prisoner-of-war until 1949. In 1960 he was transferred to the Lower Saxony State Archives in Stade , where he was in charge until 1973.

From 1955 he was co-editor of the yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony and of Studies on Church History in Lower Saxony.

At the University of Hamburg , he also took on teaching positions at the history seminar from 1962 and received an honorary professorship, in 1969 a professorship for historical auxiliary sciences. Drögereit dealt with Anglo-Saxon history (relations between northwest Germany and England) and the early history of the duchies of Bremen and Verden (Verden founding falsification). Based on his cultural-historical studies on Werden Abbey and the origin of Heliand, he was interested in questions of the history of religion (mission history, church and altar patrons ). After recovering from a long-ago illness, he suddenly died in Bergzabern.

literature

  • Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History, Volume 50 (1978); P. 505

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arcinsys.niedersachsen.de: Richard Drögereit, accessed on January 18, 2019
  2. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 19 (1976); P. 174
  3. ^ Vita in: Saxony, Angelsachsen, Lower Saxony ; P. 114
  4. ↑ Richard Drögereit in the Hamburg professors catalog (accessed on January 18, 2019) 
personal data
SURNAME Drögereit, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drögereit, Richard Robert Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1977
Place of death Bad Bergzabern